Picasa is a wonderful tool for managing your photos. You can have up to 1GB of free storage, and you can have your files easily organized for on line sharing. What if you want to share an album say… on a blog or other types of sites? I ran across a couple if cool blogs that show some nerdy tricks to make it happen.
Let me introduce you to MooToos!MooTools developed a series of scripts that you FTP to your website. Once uploaded you’ll need to change one line of code and you’ll have the complete gallery embedded seamlessly to your website. Check them out!
What if you have a blog? The web album offers you an opportunity to copy and paste an embed tag. The downside is that you can only display one album at a time not the entire gallery. However, you can place the code in a Text widget, a page or even a post. Read more about it by visiting the MyWebsiteHost.ca website.
Every now and then I run across some cool plug-ins for Wordpress. The WPtouch iPhone Theme is particularly cool. With a single click, WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch. It was a simple install and works flawlessly.
Now this is a good programmer
HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands.
Take a look at HEMA’s product page. You can’t order anything and it’s in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.
Don’t click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see what happens.
This company has a sense of humor and a great computer programmer. Take a look: http://producten.hema.nl/
Well, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. My favorite conference is now underway. The Mediasite User Conference is a top-notch conference. Each year, after every conference, I wonder how can they top this year. Some how they manage to pull it off.
This year we decided to drive up from Memphis. It took about 10 hours, but after the last 2 times of flying it turned out to be longer than driving. It was not a bad drive and having a car lets us see another side of Madison since we can drive to new places.
We are finalists, again, for the Rich Media Impact Award in Scholastic Achievement. We will find out tonight at 6:00 to see if we will be the winners. You can watch it live tonight by going to http://www.sonicfoundry.com/awards.
This year Scott will be be accepting the award so I will be Twitering the event live. Be sure to follow me at http://twitter.com/baxterj to get up-to-date comments.
What a cool idea for the iPhone! The basic concept behind this idea is that you will attach an adapter to each of your electrical outlets, and the adapter will send the information via Bluetooth to your iPhone for live results concerning your power usage. I’m all about saving money and this is a good way to do it. Take a look at the links below.
I have been extremely lazy when it comes to my blog. Actually, I have been undergoing a transition from Educational Technology to the Communications department. In just a few days I will have been in my new position for 2 months.
I must admit, I was a little apprehensive about the change. My former team of colleagues is the best group anyone could want to work with. We all had different areas of interests and strengths (check out their blogs). Working in “close- proximity” (AKA tight quarters) with each other we were able to grow professionally form these strengths. The Educational Technology team in Memphis City Schools can be seen not as a group of individuals, but as one cohesive unit made up of complementary parts. I will miss working with this team directly, however, I look forward to the exciting things to come in my new role.
Keep pushing the envelop you bunch of Nerdy Teachers!
Back in early January a group of “nerdy teachers” got together and conceived the concept for what is now EdTechTeachers.com. Later that month we went live with our site. Here we are now, less than eight months later, and the response has been overwhelming. Early this month we were able to celebrate our 1,000,000 unique visit to EdTechTeachers.com! We now have active visitors from 24 different countries, and over 6000 unique page views each day. (Should I put in a plug for advertising here? haha)
I would like to thank all of you for visiting our site and making it a huge success. We would love to hear form you. Please visit our our blogs and email us your comments or questions.
This was already a fantastic conference and tonight was an exciting moment for Memphis City Schools and Educational Technology. Tonight we were recognized as the 2008 Rich Media Impact award recipient for Scholastic Achievement.
This award recognizes a school district or other organization serving the K-12 educational community that harnessed the power of rich media to improve communication, learning and outreach.
I had the opportunity to visit the other finalist in our category, Mark Dashper from Te Manu Aute, University of Auckland, New Zealand. We both share a common interest in providing a powerful K-12 network using Mediasite. We plan to contact each other within the next several days to discuss creative ways that our two programs and countries can use Mediasite. Incidentally, he will be in Memphis this weekend. (Don’ forget to visit the Rendezvous.)
I am so fortunate to work with such a group of talented individuals. In fact, we are more of a family than colleagues. This is a proud moment for us, and I am excited to be able to report on a positive moment for our district. We ARE working hard for our children, and it brings a lot of encouragement to us be recognized in such a way.
I have attend both of the Unleash conferences, and this year was better than the last. Next year will definitely be hard to beat!!! Good luck Sonic Foundry, and thank you.
In my post FAWC! I touched on the issue of teachers not allowing students to use technology because of their own insecurities. I was reading an article in T.HE. Journal entitled “Hate the Player not the Game”where technology is being “attacked” due to a lack of understanding. It appears that the “nay-sayers” are doing a good job of trying to eliminate the opportunities instead of using good old teacher ingenuity to creatively embrace potential!
Today, everyone is busy. I’ve often said that I would love to nominate myself for the first human cloning project. I’m ‘Da Dad of 5 kids, ages 2 – 9! I love goofing off with them and introducing them to new life experiences.
However, I get to go to work each day, and my dear Bride gets to spend the day taking them to Doctors appointments, play dates, shopping, paying bills, bank … you get the picture. The other day she informed me that my daughter’s preschool wants me to come read a story to her class. My wife calls and asks me for a date that I will be available. So over the phone I’m checking my Lotus Notes and she’s checking her calendar via blackberry. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could share ONE common calendar?” I would love to have one master calendar that we can access and receive alerts of events and daily changes.
Google has had a calendar for a while, but I never really looked into it with much thought, until recently. I learned today that Google has now developed a way to synchronize your Google calendar with your Outlook calendar! This revolutionized our household. My wife and I each created a calendar in Google. We then shared our calendar with each other, and allowed each other to view and modify each others events. We can filter our out each other’s events, if we want to, and have the calendar email or text us of events and/or changes.
Being the nerd that I am I took it a step further. We downloaded the free Synch application for our cell phones! Now we can schedule events via phone and our Outlook, Lotus, phones and Google calendars are all up to date!
There’s a lot of potential for a busy classroom and a busy teacher. A powerful option to the Google calendar is the ability to embed the calendar in your website. So if you are a blogger or have your own class site, you can copy the embed HTML to your site and make your calendar available to everyone!
One Calendar to rule them all,
One Calendar to find them
One Calendar to bring them all
and in cyberspace bind them
Every now and then I run across some cool plug-ins for Wordpress. The 
d the information via Bluetooth to your iPhone for live results concerning your power usage. I’m all about saving money and this is a good way to do it. Take a look at the links below.
This was already a fantastic conference and tonight was an exciting moment for Memphis City Schools and Educational Technology. Tonight we were recognized as the 2008 Rich Media Impact award recipient for Scholastic Achievement.